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Letters Patent No. 109,399, dated November 22, 1870.

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The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making part of the.same.

To all persons to whom those presents may come 15e it known that I, CHARLES STORY DUNBRACK, ot' Swampscott, of tbc county oi' Essex and State ot' Massachusetts, have invented a new and useful Improvemcut in the Manufacture ot Lasts for Boot-s or Shoes; and do hereby declare the same to be fully described in the following specification and represented in the accompanying drawing, of which- Figure l is a side elevation "Figure 2, a bottom view;

Figure 3, a longitudinal section; and

liigured, a transverse section of' a last provide( with myinvention. v

'lhc last is intended ior'nso with an insole corresponding in size with the metallic plate iixed to the bottom or sole of the wooden portion of the last, such metallic platc serving not only as a gauge to determine the position of the insole, but as a means of efi'eeting the clincbng of the taeksused in lasting the vamp tothe insole.. llihe said metallicplate is arranged conerntreally with` the bottom 0r sole ot' tho wooden part or body of the last, and there is a narrow space all around the periphery of the plate and between such and the periphery of the sole of the body.

In the drawing- A denotes ihc'wooden last or body of the usual form, and v B represents the metallic gauge and elinehing-plate aiixed to thesole of part A.

'lhc gauge-plate B may-be let into the solo of the last and may be even therewithor .be made to pro-A ject a short distance therefrom.

Two or more holes, a a, may be formed through thev gauge-plate, to enable 'the insole to be secured to the lastby tacks driven through the insole and such holes, and into the wooden body of the last. y

The space around the periphery of the gauge-plate and between such and the edge. of the sole of the wooden body A is as shown at b.

. lhe insole employed with such a last is to be less in width, as well as less in length, than the outersole, tho same being so. that the va mp, after having been lasted 'on the. nsole,nray`be stitched to the outer sole by sewing going through the two and around the periphery of, but not through, the insole, a shoe made in such manner heilig the subject of, or described in, an application for a patent recently filed or to be filed by me. o

l am aware that it is not new to apply or atix to the sole ot' a wooden last a metallic plate of even size with such sole, and therefore I make no claim thereto. My last diiiers thercfromin having the metallic plate arranged eoncentrically with the sole ot' the last, and so that there may be a narrow space all around such pla-te andthe periphery'of the said solo. Therefore,

I claim as my invention, and as a new or improved manufacture- A wooden last A, 'a metallic` gauge and clinchingplate B, yfixed to the bottom of such last, with a space b, as described, around such plate and between its periphery and that of thc solo of the said Wooden last, all heilig substantially as and for the purpose as hereinbofore set forth.

- CHARLES STORY DUNBRAOK.

Witnesses R'H. EDDY, J. R. SNOW. 

